A Met officer from Sarah Everard killer's unit just got convicted of rape
29 October 2026 · 29 October 2026Share
The River Thames and north bank viewed from outside Southwark Crown Court. File photo. TrcaeyG555 · CC BY-SA 3.0
A former Met Police officer has just been convicted of rape.
He served in the same unit as Sarah Everard's killer.
Mark Tyrrell is 57. He's from Meltham in West Yorkshire.
So here's what happened. A jury at Southwark Crown Court found him guilty two days ago. One count of rape. Three counts of sexual assault. One count of perverting the course of justice.
He was cleared of 13 other sexual offence charges. Including another count of rape.
And he'd already pleaded guilty, at an earlier hearing, to misconduct in public office and a separate charge of perverting the course of justice.
He'll be sentenced at the same court in seven weeks, on 16 December. Nothing beyond the jury's verdict has been proven, and his sentence hasn't been decided.
So why does this case matter beyond one man?
Tyrrell was attached to the Met's Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command. That's the same unit Wayne Couzens served in before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard back in March 2021. It's also the unit David Carrick served in before he got 36 life sentences for attacks on more than a dozen women.
So think about that. Tyrrell is the third serious sexual offender to come out of one command.
Now, one outlet, London999, reports there's no suggestion Tyrrell's offending was connected to either Couzens' or Carrick's crimes. Three separate cases. Not one plot.
So what did Tyrrell actually do?
He first met his victim during a welfare check. That was part of his job as a police officer. Then he contacted her again, with no legitimate policing reason to do it.
A relationship built up over several years. He later moved in with her.
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New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service in Westminster, Greater London. File photo. Zolfeqar Fatihzadeh · CC BY-SA 4.0
The first attack happened in May 2021. Right after she refused his advances. Prosecutors said he raped her by having sex with her after she repeatedly said no.
Here's how it came to light. In April 2023, officers went to the woman's home. They found Tyrrell hiding under a duvet in her bedroom. Moments later, he deleted messages from his phone. That's the act the jury convicted him over for perverting the course of justice.
One message recovered from his phone read: says quote "for being a sex offender… for ruining your life by being in it".
That's the officer himself, in his own words, months before any jury heard the case.
The victim kept notes of the attacks on her phone. Those notes became key evidence at the trial.
Tyrrell told the jury the relationship was always consensual. The jury didn't believe him on the counts that led to conviction. It cleared him on others.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct opened its own investigation in April 2023, after the Met referred the case. That inquiry finished in May 2024. The file went to the Crown Prosecution Service, who authorised the charges.
Tyrrell was suspended. Then he resigned from the Met in September 2023. A misconduct hearing that December found he would have been dismissed had he still been serving. He was placed on the police barred list.
Chief Superintendent Sara Leach is a commander within the Met's Specialist Operations. She says quote "abused his position of trust as a police officer by instigating a romantic relationship with this victim".
That's the Met's own commander saying the uniform is what made the abuse possible.
The Met says it will now consider preparing a report asking for Tyrrell's police pension to be taken away.
The victim cannot be identified. She has lifelong legal anonymity.
It's not yet known whether the Met will review other officers who served in the same command. And it's not known what sentence Tyrrell will get in seven weeks' time.
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